A Six-Word Memoir® is the story of your life—some part of it or all of it—told in exactly
six words.

In classrooms and boardrooms,
churches and synagogues, veteran's groups
and across the dinner table, Six-Word Memoirs
have become a powerful tool to catalyze
conversation, spark imagination or simply
break the ice.

Here on Six Words,
we offer a simple platform to share the short,
sharp story of your life, as well as provide daily
prompts to share your six-word takes on the topics of
our times.

More than half a million short stories have
been shared here.
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Olivia and I got together with friends today. They picked the place: a dollar theater close to both our houses. It's a place I like, but not a place I have been for many years. Four years, four months, to be exact.

The last time I was there, I saw the movie Burn Before Reading. It was the night I found out I was pregnant with my daughter. It was the last date I ever went on with her dad.

So, as I drove up to the theater today, I admit I was shaky. I parked, and my heart beat a little faster. Sitting in the dark before the movie began, with my beautiful single-parented three and half year old, I got a little teary.

And then I got over it. We had so much fun with our new friends and when the movie ended we walked across the street to a coffee shop. By then, the theater was just a theater, not THE theater... and the power of that old memory faded into history.